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Page 1: Purpose. Overview Purpose Pillars Playbook Is the family important? “If you’ve ever been a part of a loving, healthy family you have smelled the

Purpose

Page 2: Purpose. Overview Purpose Pillars Playbook Is the family important? “If you’ve ever been a part of a loving, healthy family you have smelled the

Overview

• Purpose• Pillars• Playbook

Page 3: Purpose. Overview Purpose Pillars Playbook Is the family important? “If you’ve ever been a part of a loving, healthy family you have smelled the
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Is the family important?“If you’ve ever been a part of a loving, healthy family you have smelled the sweet aroma of heaven. If you’ve ever lived in a troubled, broken home you have breathed the foul stench of hell.”

Kurt Bruner in It Starts at Home, p. 17

Page 6: Purpose. Overview Purpose Pillars Playbook Is the family important? “If you’ve ever been a part of a loving, healthy family you have smelled the

Is the family important?“Life offers no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.”

C. Everett Koop, M.D. (former U.S. Surgeon General)

Page 7: Purpose. Overview Purpose Pillars Playbook Is the family important? “If you’ve ever been a part of a loving, healthy family you have smelled the

Theology of the family• Genesis 1-2• Deuteronomy 6:4-9• Psalm 127• Psalm 139• Proverbs• Ephesians 5-6

Page 8: Purpose. Overview Purpose Pillars Playbook Is the family important? “If you’ve ever been a part of a loving, healthy family you have smelled the

Psalm 127• Depend on the LORD to build our homes• Working hard is not wrong, but if done with

anxiety and stress apart from the LORD this is meaningless (vain, empty, futile, pointless)

• He uses us, but only God can cause the growth• Give the LORD the honor He deserves

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Psalm 127• Our children are incredibly valuable

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Children are a “gift”Idea: We are the beneficiaries of a precious trust from the LORD. We have a stewardship responsibility and a very specific assignment to purposely ensure that His children grow to know and revere the LORD.

Page 13: Purpose. Overview Purpose Pillars Playbook Is the family important? “If you’ve ever been a part of a loving, healthy family you have smelled the

Children are a “reward/blessing”

“The Hebrew saw children as the greatest blessing and enrichment God could give to their lives – ever since the fall when death began to reign. No one would dare neglect or abuse the gifts of God.”

Alan P. Ross

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Children are “arrows”• Warrior terminology• We are in a battle• Arrows have a very specific purpose• Arrows must be skillfully shaped over time• Blessed = the enjoyment of righteousness

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Are fathers important?• When a child first attends church, 3.5% of

families follow• When a mom/wife first attends church, 17% of

families follow• When a dad/husband is the first to attend

church, 93% of families follow (Barna Research)

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Launching “Kingdom Arrows”

• Great Commission• Great Commandment• Leaving a spiritual legacy of discipleship• We have a window of time• We must let them fly

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Applications• Pray for our families• Pray for YOUR family (or future family)• Dedicate our homes to the LORD• Raise up next generation leaders!• Adopt an Aggie- we need families

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John 17:20-21“I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their message; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.”

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